I'm jut wondering about why question tiny plot inconsistencies
whilst ignoring the elephant in the room of the whole thing, that being the big dog things. Presumbaly they are in the book, but it's still a rather epic inconsistency.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:02, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

What bugged you about the mutated dogs?

( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:05, Reply)

The concept is wrong.
Direct intervention causing death. Surely, the tributes must kill each other or succumb to the environment. If rules permit the people outside can kill tributes on a whim, as they then do, what's the point of the game?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:07, Reply)

Ah well in the book it explains/suggests that the mutations are in fact made from the other tributes DNA
So its still the tributes fighting the others in a roundabout sort of way

In the film it makes no sense.
( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:10, Reply)

Yeah, you wouldn't know they had the same eyes in the film
unless she actually said "Oh my gosh! They've got the same eyes as the tributes I already killed!"
(Bazongaloid, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:11, Reply)

It wasn't just the eyes
They had numbers too
( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:14, Reply)

I missed that
That's quite interesting.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:23, Reply)

In the books

( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:30, Reply)

I'm not bothered by it making sense or not so much.
It's fiction after all. From a conceptual point of view, a story about a game like that becomes weaker without relevant rules. Maybe that's just me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)

Unless the Government being a bunch of cheats is part of the story
Plus its not really a story about a game, its a story of control and rebellion.
( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)

granted, but if they are going to cheat, what's the point of the game?
might as well just feed 24 kids to bears.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:16, Reply)

They answer that in the film
Hope
( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:18, Reply)

The game is televised everywhere
there wouldn't be hope if it became obvious to the districts that there was cheating going on.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:20, Reply)

The district that won wouldn't care
and the ones that lost would be just as controlled
( Peej, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:23, Reply)

Yeah, they were mutants created by the capital
in the same way as the massive wasp things
(Bazongaloid, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:06, Reply)

yeah but the wasps are effectively passive
the lass had to get involved to use them as a weapon. That makes sense to me. The dogs are just the controllers picking off people, which seems to go against the point really.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:08, Reply)

The book does say that the controllers do often cheat to take out certain kids
one is mentioned that went mental and ate the heart of every victim but was killed by an avalanche that she thinks was started by the controllers to stop him winning.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 3 Apr 2012, 15:10, Reply)